The Met: Live in HD announces upcoming season

The new season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters around the world, will feature 12 productions, including seven new shows, two of which are Met premieres.

The series opens on Oct. 13 with Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore,” starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien in a new production by Bartlett Sher. The season continues as follows:

Oct. 27: Verdi’s “Otello”

Nov. 10: the Met premiere of Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest”

Dec. 1: Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”

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Dec. 8: a new production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera”

Dec. 15: Verdi’s “Aida”

Jan. 5: Berlioz’s “Les Troyens”

Jan. 19: the Met premiere of Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda”

Feb. 16: a new production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto”

March 2: a new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal”

March 16: Zandonai’s rarely heard “Francesca da Rimini”

April 27: a new production of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.”

“Our live transmissions continue to transform the public’s perception of opera and to excite our performers and our audiences around the world,” said Met general manager Peter Gelb. “For our entire company, there is nothing quite like one of our adrenaline-packed Saturday matinee broadcasts.”

The series is made possible by a grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation, and Bloomberg.

The Met: Live in HD is a leading provider of alternative cinema content and is now shown in more than 1,700 theaters in 54 countries. Tickets for the 2012-13 season will go on sale in September.